| Procedure for Bid
Submission
The bidder shall submit his response through Bid submission to the tender on eProcurement platform at www.apeprocurement.gov.in by following the procedure given below. The bidder would be required to register on the e-procurement market place www.apeprocurement.gov.in or https://tender.apeprocurement.gov.in and submit their bids online. Offline bids shall not be entertained by the Tender Inviting Authority for the tenders published in e-procurement platform.
The bidders shall submit their eligibility and qualification details, Technical bid, Financial bid etc., in the online standard formats displayed in eProcurement web site. The bidders shall upload the scanned copies of all the relevant certificates, documents etc., in support of their eligibility criteria/technical bids and other certificate/documents in the eProcurement web site. The bidder shall sign on the statements, documents, certificates, uploaded by him, owning responsibility for their correctness/authenticity. The bidder shall attach all the required documents for the specific tender after uploading the same during the bid submission as per the tender notice and bid document.
Registration with eProcurement platform: For registration and online bid submission bidders may contact HELP DESK.
www.apeprocurement.gov.in or https://tender.apeprocurement.gov.in.
Digital Certificate authentication:
The bidder shall authenticate the bid with his Digital Certificate for submitting the bid electronically on eProcurement platform and the bids not authenticated by digital certificate of the bidder will not be accepted on the eProcurement platform.
For obtaining Digital Signature Certificate, you may please Contact:
Andhra Pradesh Technology Services Limited
3rd Floor,
R & B Building,
M.G.Road, Labbipet,
Vijayawada ? 520010.
Phone: 0866-2479417
0866-2489417
(OR)
You may please Contact Registration Authorities of any Certifying Authorities in India. The list of CAs are available by clicking the link https://tender.apeprocurement.gov.in/digital-signature.html#
3. Hard copies:
i) All the bidders shall invariably upload the scanned copies of Proof of online Payment (Remittance)/BG in eProcurement system and this will be the primary requirement to consider the bid responsive.
ii) The department shall carry out the technical evaluation solely based on the uploaded certificates/documents, Proof of online Payment (Remittance)/BG towards EMD in the eProcurement system and open the price bids of the responsive bidders.
4. The GO. Ms. No. 174 -I&CAD dated: 1-9-2008
Deactivation of Bidders If any successful bidder fails to submit the original hard copies of uploaded certificates/documents, Proof of online Payment (Remittance)/BG towards EMD within stipulated time or if any variation is noticed between the uploaded documents and the hardcopies submitted by the bidder, as the successful bidder will be suspended from participating in the tenders on eProcurement platform for a period of 3 years. The eProcurement system would deactivate the user ID of such defaulting bidder based on the trigger/recommendation by the Tender Inviting Authority in the system. Besides this, the department shall invoke all processes of law including criminal prosecution of such defaulting bidder as an act of extreme deterrence to avoid delays in the tender process for execution of the development schemes taken up by the government. Other conditions as per tender document are applicable.
The bidder is requested to get a confirmed acknowledgement from the Tender Inviting Authority a proof of Hardcopies submission to avoid any discrepancy.
5. Payment of Transaction Fee:
It is mandatory for all the participant bidders from 1st January 2006 to electronically pay a Non-refundable Transaction fee to M/s. APTS, the service provider through "Payment Gateway Service on E-Procurement platform". The Electronic Payment Gateway accepts all Master and Visa Credit Cards issued by any bank and Direct Debit facility/Net Banking of ICICI Bank, Axis Bank to facilitate the transaction. This is in compliance as per G.O.Ms. 13 dated 07.05.2006. A service tax of 15.00% + Bank charges on the transaction amount payable to APTS shall be applicable.
6. Corpus Fund:
As per GO MS No.4 User departments shall collect 0.04% of ECV (estimated contract value) with a cap of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees ten thousand only) for all works with ECV upto Rs.50 Crores, and Rs. 25,000/- (Rupees twenty-five thousand only) for works with ECV above Rs.50 Crores, from successful bidders on eProcurement platform before entering into agreement / issue of purchase orders, towards eprocurement fund in favour of Managing Director, APTS. There shall not be any charge towards eProcurement fund in case of works, goods and services with ECV less than and upto Rs. 10 lakhs
7. Tender Document:
The bidder is requested to download the tender document and read all the terms and conditions mentioned in the tender Document and seek clarification if any from the Tender Inviting Authority. Any offline bid submission clause in the tender document could be neglected.
The bidder has to keep track of any changes by viewing the Addendum/Corrigendum issued by the Tender Inviting Authority on time-to- time basis in the E-Procurement platform. The Department calling for tenders shall not be responsible for any claims/problems arising out of this.
8. Bid Submission Acknowledgement:
The bidder shall complete all the processes and steps required for Bid submission. The system will generate an acknowledgement with a unique bid submission number after completing all the prescribed steps and processes by the bidder. Users may also note that the bids for which an acknowledgement is not generated by the e-procurement system are treated as invalid or not saved in the system. Such invalid bids are not made available to the Tender Inviting Authority for processing the bids. The Government of AP are not responsible for incomplete bid submission by users.
9. EMD :
EMD (1.00%) in the shape of DD for Rs. 51,088/- issued by any Nationalized Bank in favour of Chief Engineer, APSSA, Amaravati to be valid for 3 months from the date of NIT or Bank Guarantee in the standard format issued by any Nationalized Bank to be valid for 3 months from the date of NIT in favour of Chief Engineer, APSSA, Amaravati. Scanned copies of the 1.00% EMD should be uploaded with bids and originals must be submitted to the Chief Engineer, APSSA, Amaravati through registered post/ courier so as to reach before the date of opening of price bid at 05.00 P.M. Failure to furnish the original DD/ BG before the technical bid opening date will entail rejection of bid.
10. Any offline bid submission clause in the tender document could be neglected.
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